The Big Head Fly

Look, I’m not really an aquatic insect guy, and generally fade out internally when fellow fly fishers start crapping on about them at anything more than the “Oh look, some caddis,” or “Gee,…

We see a lot of excited reporting of how good the trout fishing is in New Zealand’s South Island, and most of it is true. By any standard the trout streams are right up there among the finest…

In 1922 Leonard Halladay developed a dry fly pattern for Charles Adams. This fly, to be-come immortalised as the ‘Adams’, went on to be one of the most successful trout patterns of all time.…